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Longines
Longines is a luxury watch company founded by Ernest Francillon at Saint-Imier, Switzerland. Its origins can be traced back to the 1830s and it currently holds the oldest registered logo for a watch company (a winged hourglass). Longines is currently holds the oldest registered logo for a watch company (winged hourglass). Longines is currently owned by the Swatch Group. Based in Saint-Imier since 1832, the Compagnie des Montres Longines Francillon S.A. is historically among the world’s leading horological houses. In 2007, Longines had its 175th anniversary. The brand evolved from a comptoir to a full-fledfed manufacturing operation and hen back down to an etablisseur today, since the early 1980s, as a Swatch Group company. From this perspective, in 1866, Francillon purchased two adjoining plots of land at a place locally known as Les Longines on the right bank of the River Suze that flows in the Saint-Imier valley. Here he built a factory, to gather the entire production under one roof. By 1867, Francillon had convinced some of his pieceworks to transfer their activitier to his newly built factory and hired a young kinsman, the engineer Jacques David, to help him devise the tools and machines which he needed to improve the manufacturing process.
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